The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Milton Friedman

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Walter Gropius

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

Tadao Ando

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Le Corbusier

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Rem Koolhaas

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.